Azoux' Clastic Anatomy

October 16, 2018

Excerpt from The Fate of Anatomical Collections, Chapter 8 User-Developers, Model Students and Ambassador Users : The Role of the Public in the Global Distribution of Nineteenth- Century Anatomical Models by Anna Maerker


“Auzoux developed a special recipe for a paper paste, which enabled the construction of life-sized models of the human body that could be taken apart and reassembled. He coined the term ‘clastic anatomy’ (after the Greek for ‘to break, to separate’) to highlight the novelty of his ‘dissectible’ models. To facilitate independent study and the identification of anatomical details, the models were extensively labelled.”


Source: The Fate of Anatomical Collections Rina Knoeff, Robert Zwijnenberg. Ashgate Publishing Company (2015)

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